Banquet: Definition and part of speech

Banquet

  1. n. A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
  2. n. A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
  3. v. i. To regale one’s self with good eating and drinking; to feast.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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